Have you ever tried to paddle a boat upstream? It’s extremely difficult. When I was twenty-two-years-old, I was kayaking with a friend down south in the Keys. I was paddling as hard as I could upstream to get back through the inlet and to the boat landing. We had been paddling for several hours, and I was wiped out and dehydrated. I could feel the muscles in my arms burning. I was like a salmon coming home to its nesting grounds, pink, sunburnt and haggard. I reached a moment during that paddle that I didn’t think I could make it any further. I could see …
